The run closed December 9, 1961
- Opened
- October 12, 1961
- Closed
- December 9, 1961
- Performances
- 68
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Eugene O'Neill Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 238th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it37 named
Ted Adkins
Marty Allen
Helen Baisley
Rhett Dennis
Bob Evans
Harold Gary
Dick Gingrich
Carol Glade
Ann Johnson
Sally Kirk
Sally Lee
Jack Leigh
Robert Lenn
Albert Linville
Vernon Lusby
Barbara Marcon
Rae Mclean
Virginia Perlowin
Michael Roberts
Stanley Simmonds
Pat Turner
Sandy Walsh
Marc West
Maggie Worth
13 of these 37 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 24 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Stanley Prager
- Choreographer
- Onna White
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
Let It Ride is a Broadway musical based on the 1935 Broadway farce Three Men on a Horse by George Abbott and John Cecil Holm. The musical, with book by Abram S. Ginnes and music and lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, choreographer Onna White, assistant choreographer Eugene Louis Faccuito (Luigi), opened on Broadway in New York City at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on October 12, 1961, and played 69 performances including one preview. The original Broadway production co-starred George Gobel and Sam Levene and featured Barbara Nichols and Paula Stewart. Erwin Trowbridge, a mild-mannered man working for a greeting card company, has an unusual talent: he can pick the winners of horse races wit…
- Let It Ride! (George Gobel), Little Me (Sid Caesar), and 110 in the Shade (Robert Horton). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 829
- A second musical version of the play was the unsuccessful Livingston and Evans’ LET IT RIDE [October 12, 1961]. George Abbott, no fool, knew enough to stay away from both attempts at altering his classic farce. Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 309
- For some reason, RCA tended to pick up the cast album rights to musicals that starred television personalities, such as Wildcat (Lucille Ball), Do Re Mi (Phil Silvers), Let It Ride! (George Gobel), Little Me (Sid Caesar), and 110 in the Shade (Robert Horton). The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 834
- Three years later, Livingston and Evans contributed a less interesting score to Let It Ride, a botched musicalization of Three Men on a Horse which starred George Gobel and Sam Levene and ran two months. Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 168
- The Gay Life (113), based on Arthur Schnitzler’s play The Affairs of Anatol, had music by Arthur Schwartz, but, like Let It Ride! (68) and Young Abe Lincoln (93), was a commercial failure. West End Broadway the Golden Age of the American Musical Adrian Wright Boydell B, p. 201
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Let It Ride at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.